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TB numbers down for first time ever

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Underfunding is a growing concern, though, says WHO GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Sustained efforts by a number of large countries are responsible for much of the dramatic improvement in the global picture for tuberculosis, the World Health Organization said late Tuesday 11 October. China has halved the prevalence of the disease and seen the number of [...]

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WHO says too little money goes to mental health prevention

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:17:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Money invested in mental health comes to a global average of only $3 per capita, according to the World Health Organization, and in some developing countries it is as low as $.25, with most funds spent on long-term hospitalization. Only two percent of all health resources are invested in mental health services [...]

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Milan sends car-free citizens to museums, pools

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:31:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com MILAN, ITALY – Sunday 9 October was a car-free day in Milan, designed to get the pollution level, one of Europe’s highest, down to legally acceptable levels. Seventy firefighters and extra police officers ensured that from 08:00 to 18:00 virtually no cars were driven in the city. The city’s safety commissioner said they were also [...]

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HUG’s transport workers on strike; hospital wins prison care award

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:55:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva were handed a surprise strike Thursday 6 October by the workers who transport patients and material, and the union for which they work and hospital officials immediately met. The hospital says in a statement issued during the morning that its first preoccupation is the patients, and [...]

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Sprouts it is, or appears to be: E. coli cause

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:46:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – World Health Organization (WHO) figures Sunday 5 June showed that 21 people have died from E. coli or HUS, which is provoked by E. coli, while in Germany public health authorities in Lower Saxony say they have a “really hot lead” to the cause: bean and other sprouts from a farm 70km [...]

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Geneva’s international buzz louder than usual

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:30:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva prides itself on its international role, but if you sense that the city’s native sons and daughters are outnumbered by foreign guests at the moment, you’re right. Runners, weather and climate specialists, world health workers have all converged on the city for three weeks of events. Geneva Marathon has massive [...]

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Pacific islanders’ obesity problem balloons: imported food main culprit

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:24:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com WHO says over 50% population obese in 10 Pacific islands, causing host of health problems Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Three Pacific Island regions, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia are home to 10 islands whose populations are suffering from growing health problems, with obesity at the root of the problem. Imported foods are the main culprit, says [...]

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Two-year-old smoker’s parents want him to quit

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:10:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Indonesia is the only country in Asia not to have signed the World Health Organization’s framework on tobacco control. CNN has highlighted the extent to which children are affected by smoking with a story about two-year-old Aldi, a new media darling in the country who can’t give up smoking. His parents want him to stop, [...]

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WHO: new media part of mistakes in managing H1N1 epidemic

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:06:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fading role of traditional media and the rise of new media were overlooked by the WHO (World Health Organization), a root cause of some of the management problems with the H1N1 epidemic, a senior WHO official says. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s special advisor on pandemic influenza, was addressing 29 experts [...]

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Water, water everywhere in Switzerland, so just drink it

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:07:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Monday 23 March is World Water Day, and Swiss consumer groups are doing their bit by encouraging Swiss consumers and restaurants to favour tap water over bottled water. There is no reason for people in Switzerland to pay for bottled water, they argue, for hygiene or health reasons, and tap water doesn’t require containers [...]

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